DC’s three giant pandas are leaving on a jet plane loaded with bamboo for the long flight to China.
When the National Zoo’s three giant pandas leave for China in the next few weeks, they will have one big piece of luggage.Fast, informative and written just for locals. Get The 7 DMV newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning.It is a large container that will hold bamboo — probably more than 100 pounds of it — as well as water, produce and nutrition biscuits for the 19-hour, 9,000-mile journey from Virginia’s Dulles International Airport to Chengdu, China.
Since then, giant pandas at the zoo have come and gone, been born and passed away. Generations of visitors have delighted in their antics. Some have been obsessed. Now the black and white bears are about to leave the city devoid of giant pandas for the first time in 23 years — and probably for the foreseeable future.
Amaral said the first two shipping containers were delivered well before the departure so the animals have time to get used to them. Once aboard the plane, the keepers will be able to keep tabs on the pandas and feed them bamboo and other treats. “Just like the beverage cart going up and down the aisle,” he said.
Once in China, the bears will have to adjust to their new home. “Obviously, there are a bunch of things that are going to change,” Amaral said. “Their caretakers are going to change.”The pandas are trained to respond to certain prompts in English, Amaral said, and they’ll have to learn “a little” Chinese.
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